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Swedish Americans (Swedish: Svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedish descent. The history of Swedish Americans dates back to the early colonial times, [ 3 ] with notable migration waves occurring in the 19th and early 20th centuries and approximately 1.2 million arriving between 1865–1915. [ 4 ]
It has published numerous books since then and also publishes a scholarly journal titled the Swedish–American Historical Quarterly, formerly the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly. [1] [2] In 2024, the Society transitioned to an annual journal called Swedish-American Studies that is published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Reproduced in H. Arnold Barton, A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans 1840-1940. Count Hans Axel von Fersen: Aristocrat in an Age of Revolution (1975) Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914 (1975) The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga (1979) Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815 ...
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Olson, Daron. "We Are All Scandinavians: Norwegian American Press Reaction to the 1938 Swedish Tercentenary." Swedish American Historical Quarterly 65 (2014): 3–30. Norwegian-American press argued the colonial settlement was Scandinavian not just Swedish. Rasmussen, Anders Bo.
There are numerous Swedish descendants in places like the United States and Canada (i.e. Swedish Americans and Swedish Canadians), including some who still speak Swedish. The majority of the early Swedish immigrants to Canada came via the United States. It was not until after 1880 that significant numbers of Swedes immigrated to Canada.
Pages in category "American people of Swedish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 854 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The size of the Swedish-American community in 1865 is estimated at 25,000 people, a figure soon to be surpassed by the yearly Swedish immigration. By 1890, the U.S. census reported a Swedish-American population of nearly 800,000, with immigration peaking in 1869 and again in 1887. [43] Most of this influx settled in the North.